Re: [Prism54-devel] Re: [PATCH 5/14 linux-2.6.7-rc1] prism54: new prism54 kernel compatibility

[mcgrof@studorgs.rutgers.edu (Luis R. Rodriguez)]

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On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:53:50AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 10:32, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > 2004-03-20      Margit Schubert-While <margitsw@t-online.de>
> > 
> > * isl_38xx.[ch], isl_ioctl.c, islpci_dev.[ch], islpci_eth.c
> >   islpci_hotplug.c, islpci_mgt.[ch], oid_mgt.c: Adopt new
> >   prism54 kernel compatibility.
> > 
> > * prismcompat.h, prismcompat24.h: New compatibility work
> 
> 
> ewwww this makes the driver quite a bit less readable!
> 
> for example
> 
> -#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,0)
> -       /* This is 2.6 specific, nicer, shorter, but not in 2.4 yet */
> -       DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
> -       prepare_to_wait(&priv->reset_done, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> -#else
> -       DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
> -       set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> -       add_wait_queue(&priv->reset_done, &wait);
> -#endif
> +       PRISM_DEFWAITQ(priv->reset_done, wait)
> 
> why not just make a DEFINE_WAIT() and prepare_to_wait() macro for 2.4
> instead ?? so that you can just have the 2.6 version in the code and do
> 2.4 compat in a clean header, as opposed to fouling up the entire driver
> with it.

Thanks for the comment Arjan. This will be fixed.

	Luis

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